[120]. Transcriber’s Note: The text for this footnote marker is missing.
[121]. The first was the death of Balder.
[122]. In another place a ravenous wolf tormented the souls of the damned.
[123]. The great serpent.
[124]. Runes.
[125]. Pigott’s translation.
[126]. The authorities for this section are:—Vita S. Anscharié; Vita S. Remberti (both in Bollandus, Acta SS., and in Langebek, Scriptores Rerum Danicarum); Ornjolm, Historia Ecclesiastica Sueciæ.
[127]. Who was he? Loccenius and most Swedish writers (who are followed by our Universal History), tell us that he was Olaf Trætelia. Yet that prince had been dead two centuries. Neither could it be Olaf Skotkonung, who did not reign until two centuries afterwards—always supposing that any dependence is to be placed on the chronology of the Scandinavians. Yet an Olaf did reign at this period; and this only illustrates what we observed in the first volume as to the confusion so evident in all the regal lists.
[128]. Europe during the Middle Ages (Cab. Cyc.), vol. ii.
[129]. See Vol. I. p. 108.